TRYING TO PLEASE

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3929, 21 July 1937, Page 4

TRYING TO PLEASE

TROUBLES OF THE BROADCASTER. “At first I used to get dreadfully worried by letters that came to me after my broadcasts,” writes Leonard Henry in his book “My Laugh Story.” “The ones that said nice things of course I revelled in, but always there was a proportion of critical missives, some of them couched in such harsh terms that I used to be thoroughly scared lest anybody in authority at the 8.8. C. should be receiving similar communications. Fortunately I then talked things over with a few friends, and found that they had almost exactly the same experience. As Tommy Handley said. ‘You can’t please everybody—especially on the wireless. In a hall yon can get some of them laughing, and then the other will follow suit. But when you’re dealing with millions of loudspeakers in millions of different homes, it is obvious that some of the people either won’t like your kind of humour or will be in the wrong mood to receive it. Out of those a few will write abusive letters, and it is no good upsetting yourself about it.’ ”